Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, Books Noted Live, The State of Poetry

May 11, 2021

Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month

Celebrate Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month with this collection of poems:

“I Want the Wide American Earth” by Carlos Bulosan
“There, There, Grieving” by Zeina Hashem Beck
“A Table in the Wilderness” by Li-Young Lee
“The Belladonna of Sadness” by Sally Wen Mao
“The New Decade” by Hieu Minh Nguyen
“Portrait of My Father as a Pianist” by Cynthia Dewi Oka
“ars pasifika” by Craig Santos Perez
“from Stray Birds [233—237]” by Rabindranath Tagore
“That All, Everyone, Each in Being” by Mai Der Vang
“Naturalization” by Jenny Xie

Join us for Books Noted Live

Join us Friday, May 14, from 7 to 7:45 p.m. EDT, for Books Noted Live, a virtual reading and conversation series featuring poets with new or forthcoming books. Academy of American Poets Chancellor and Wallace Stevens Award winner Nikky Finney will be joined by Arisa White, author of the poetic memoir Who's Your Daddy (Augury Books, 2021). The event is free with registration.

#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: The 2021 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

Check out our #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: The 2021 Massachusetts Poetry Festival, a virtual showcase featuring 100+ poets and 60+ events. Headline poets include Tyehimba Jess, Lang Leav, Martín Espada, Victoria Chang, Naomi Shihab Nye, Patricia Spears Jones, Khadijah Queen, and more. Thursday, May 13 to Sunday, May 16. Register for this virtual event here.

The State of Poetry: A Massachusetts Poetry Festival Panel

Don’t miss the “State of Poetry,” a Massachusetts Poetry Festival panel featuring the Academy of American Poets’ Executive Director Jennifer Benka, Tyehimba Jess, Martín Espada, and Jonathan Galassi. Saturday, May 15 at 4:45 p.m. EDT. Register for this virtual panel here.

Listen to Paisley Rekdal read Toyo Suyemoto’s “Barracks Home,” featuring illustrations by award-winning artist, Sindha Agha, as part of Twenty Ten Twenty-Five.

Upcoming Contest Deadlines

Poetry presses and publishers, keep in mind the May 15th deadline for the 2021 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, awarded to the most outstanding book of 2020, and the 2021 James Laughlin Award, which recognizes and supports a second book forthcoming in 2022.

Listen to internationally acclaimed poet David Whyte on Meditative Story, a podcast series that explores storytelling through a mindfulness lens. In his story, Whyte shares an experience from when he was living in the Welsh mountains and just coming into his own as a poet. The episode concludes with one of Whyte’s poems.

Electric Literature is seeking a full-time Editor-in-Chief who will be responsible for all content on electricliterature.com.
Tri-County Technical College in Pendleton, South Carolina, is seeking a full-time English Instructor to begin teaching August 2021.
Yale University Press in New Haven, Connecticut, is seeking a full-time Publicist to plan and execute publicity strategy for select titles.

What Sumita Chakraborty is Currently Working On

“I have a series (you all published a part of it) called the b-sides of the golden records. They’re prose poems based on the 1977 golden records that NASA sent into space to teach aliens what human beings were all about and my poems imagine or kind of inhabit what was left out from their very, very curated view of humanity.”

—Sumita Chakraborty, author of Arrow (Alice James, 2020), and Poem-a-Day Guest Editor for the month of May.

Revisit last week’s Poem-a-Day selections with us on Poets.org:

May 2: “Fire-Flowers” by Emily Pauline Johnson
May 3: “It’s Important I Remember that the Moral Arc of the Universe Bends—” by Cortney Lamar Charleston
May 4: “The Birthday Interviews” by Derrick Austin
May 5: “Bandwidth” by Destiny O. Birdsong
May 6: “Parable of the Unclean Spirit” by Sara Eliza Johnson
May 7: “‘Pages 1-4,’ an excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure” by Nicole Sealey
May 8: “Vanishing” by Brittney Corrigan

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Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, Books Noted Live, The State of Poetry